GAS -- Let's start a price war -- REALLY

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GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work

This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your consideration.

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.

BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not sellers.

With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

How?

Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to over 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more
(300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers.

If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all! (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am So trust me on thisone.) :)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

Lyle Klein, Director, Research Coordinator
Thanks for your support,
 
I never Buy EXXON Mobil to begin with. But I will be sending this to people to do the same.
 
In a word, Boycott! Where are my placards and Birkenstocks?
Anyone have any research into independant(?) gas stations that buy fuel from Exxon/Mobil refineries or fuel depots? If we are going to make a large enough impact, we need to get the scale of the distribution network and bypass them all. Should we go so far as to steer clear of oil and maintenance items too?
For that matter, do we have an approved Fuel/Maintenance purchasing list to choose from?


Viva la Revolution!!
 
I never buy from, them anyway,

And I still don't buy gas on sundays ..... you are refuring to Bill `O from Fox news. One of the first and only one yelling about how we are getting screwed.

did you hear Brazil no longer inports any oil , all the car run on gas made from sugar witch they grow them selfs,

it comes down to our gov is in the pocket of OPEC
 
Hi Mespock

I am not sure about gas stations stateside but here in the U.K they all use each others gas no matter what it says on the forecourt sign.

For example; In my area of the U.K there are two refineries, Shell and BP so all the gas stations in the South West of the U.K are selling either Shell or BP.

If this is the case in the States I am affraid Rich your scheeme will not work :(

Regards

Dereck
 
Yep I second the above here where i live there is one place where all the gas comes into. That is where every gas station in the area gets their gas from. so yeah this won't work.
 
Yea, also you have to figure in all of the independent stations... I work at an independent station that just so happens to sell Exxon Mobil gas, which is not stated ANYWHERE in the station sign... I dont think this can work
 

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